Hill Top House
HILL TOP HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316790
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Top House
- Statutory Address:
- HILL TOP HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316790
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Top House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL TOP HOUSE, MAIN STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HILL TOP HOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kettlewell with Starbotton
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 95270 74915
Details
SD 97 SE KETTLEWELL WITH STARBOTTON MAIN STREET (east side, off) Starbotton
11/113 Hill Top House
10.9.54
- II
House. Dated 1670 with C18-early C19 alterations. Limestone rubble, graduated stone slate roof. A 2-storey, 4-bay range facing south, with a taller 2-bay rear wing facing east. Quoins. Main range: half-glazed door between bays 1 and 2 with tristone jambs, slightly chamfered, and a moulded cornice. A blocked doorway to bay 3, having chamfered quoins to right jamb and a large lintel with a segmental arch, the left jamb and part of the lintel removed when a window of 3 stepped lights with flat-faced mullions was inserted. The remaining windows, to bays 1 and 4 and throughout the first floor, have lugged sashes with glazing bars. The right jamb and part of the sill and lintel of a destroyed recessed chamfered window to ground floor, right. Flat kneelers, gable coping and corniced end stacks, a further ridge stack above the blocked doorway. The eaves have been raised at first-floor window lintel level. Left return of-main range: a square recessed chamfered window with 4 panes to ground floor, left, a small round-headed window above. Main range right return: 2 ground-floor and 1 first-floor sash window as front. Rear wing east side: board door right in chamfered surround with solid jambs and a reset lintel with triangular arch and 2 recessed panels with raised lettering "LDL" and "1670". Moulded cornice over. A large 2-light recessed chamfered window with hood mould to left and first floor; a narrow hollow chamfered window far left, with a straight chamfer above. Rear wing west side: an added dairy outshut, right, with a 2-light mullion window to ground floor and a small square window above, both with recessed chamfers. The left bay has a 4-light recessed window with hoodmould, one mullion replaced in wood, and a 4, now 2-light window above, both recessed chamfered. Moulded kneeler and gable copings and a tall moulded corniced stack to left. Rear wing, north gable: an added outshut obscures ground floor; 2 narrow lights to first floor, left rectangular, right round headed. Interior, main range: direct entry to the central room with large fireplace, right, which has a late C18 stone surround, the lintel supported by moulded corbels. The cross-beam has stepped run-out stops. Ground floor right: this room has a fine small C17 fireplace with chamfered surround and triangular arched head. The inner room, right is only half a bay in length. Interior, rear wing: entry from the dated doorway into a large kitchen with fine segmental-arched fireplace with keystone and voussoirs. Inserted stairs between wing and main range, the added dairy has a cellar beneath, also under the rear wing. Both ranges are C17 in origin; the main range originally with lobby entry onto the side of a large fireplace, rebuilt c1800. The inner heated parlour and narrow storage bay represent good examples of an early C17 plan. The present entrance door and fireplace probably date to a complete reordering and refenestration; a newspaper dated 1805 was found in the underceiling of the living room during recent restoration. The rear wing was probably built as continued. . . . a kitchen wing, the large fireplace contemporary with the 1670 dated lintel. There was probably a newel stair in the corner lit by the single- light window; the cellar and dairy were probably added during the extensive c1800 reordering. It is likely that the main range was the original house on the site, the rear wing added to increase the cooking and storage area in 1670 and the whole house altered, including rendering to the main facade (removed during restoration c1980) in the early C19.
Listing NGR: SD9527074915
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324699
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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